InfluenceWatch Podcast

We’ve covered Mark Zuckerberg’s financing of the administration of the 2020 elections through the Center for Tech and Civic Life before, but our guest today adds a provocative analysis to the evidence that the Facebook chief deserves a thank-you card from President Biden. In a piece originally posted at the Federalist and, as we record on Thursday October 14, the cover story of the New York Post, William Doyle of the Caesar Rodney Election Research Institute asserts that “The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes.” William joins me to explain his thesis. The 2020 Election Wasn’t Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg: https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/12/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg/ Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

The Ford Foundation: While created by a famed family of arch-capitalists, for decades the institution—long, though likely no longer, the largest private foundation in the country—has been the financial backbone of the radical left. And now some are proposing taking radical action to counter its influence; Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio J.D. Vance spitballed on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program: “Why don't we seize the assets of the Ford Foundation, tax their assets, and give it to the people who've had their lives destroyed by the radical open borders agenda?” Joining me to discuss what to do about the Ford Foundation and the broader Big Philanthropy is my colleague Mike Hartmann, director of Capital Research Center’s Center for Strategic Giving and co-editor of the Philanthropy Daily Giving Review blog. Michael Hartmann: https://capitalresearch.org/person/michael-e-hartmann/ Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch Special Guest: Michael Hartmann.

Who are the “Eco-Right,” and what do they stand for? They will tell you that they want to bring a market-based and conservative-minded approach to conservation challenges, but my colleague Hayden Ludwig questions that narrative in a new report for Capital Research Center titled “Rise of the Eco-Right.” Looking into the funding, staffing, and policy positions undergirding the “Eco-Right,” Hayden exposes what he calls “a web of overlapping boards and shared donors—all in service to a destructive and misleading agenda.” Rise of the Eco-Right: https://capitalresearch.org/article/rise-of-the-eco-right/ Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch Special Guest: Hayden Ludwig.

“Black Lives Matter”: Never has such an uncontroversial statement covered for a more radical political movement. That’s the thesis of "BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution," a new book exposing the radical intellectual undercurrents and leaders of the institutional Black Lives Matter campaign, by Mike Gonzalez, the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Mike joins me today to discuss his book. BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution: https://www.heritage.org/blm Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

“Woke capital”—social liberalism, especially focused on critical race theory and its intellectual children “antiracism” and “equity” carried out by businessmen rather than politicians or traditional nonprofit activists. Much has been written about it, but what does “woke capital” look like from the inside? That’s the subject of "Woke Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam," a new book written by biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has seen the growth of woke capital from inside his own corporate boardrooms. Mr. Ramaswamy joins Mike Watson to discuss his book. Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam (https://www.vivekramaswamy.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-ZCKBhBkEiwAM4qfF16fam13INg2uf-UyCmMDFGV7KfBS69Gkaeo_-17GtAhcHTnv0xnJxoCvIUQAvD_BwE) Woke Capitalism in Woke, Inc. (https://capitalresearch.org/article/woke-capitalism-in-woke-inc/) Shareholder Activism: Woke Capitalism from the Inside (https://capitalresearch.org/article/shareholder-activism-woke-capitalism-from-the-inside/) Can “Woke” Boardroom Culture Be Broken? (https://capitalresearch.org/article/can-woke-boardroom-culture-be-broken/) Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

If you live in Virginia, buckle up—a new wave of absentee-ballot mailers is about to overwhelm mailboxes across the commonwealth, courtesy of the same professional activists who flooded the Old Dominion in 2020. A newly obtained memo reveals correspondence from a pair of left-wing nonprofits in Washington, DC—the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and Center for Voter Information (CVI)—detailing a plan to flood Virginia with 2 million mail-in ballot applications ahead of the November gubernatorial race. While COVID restrictions were the original justification for expanding mail-in ballots, there appears to be an effort to keep pervasive mail-in balloting as part of American elections for the foreseeable future. But is this a good thing? Listen to find out. "Watch Out, Virginia—Another Flood of Mail-In Ballot Mailers Headed Your Way" -- Hayden Ludwig: https://capitalresearch.org/article/watch-out-virginia-another-flood-of-mail-in-ballot-mailers-headed-your-way/ Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch Special Guest: Hayden Ludwig.

On his way out the door, disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo left one final “present” for liberal ideologues: a parole referral for David Gilbert, serving 75 years to life for his role in the 1981 Brink’s armored car robbery that led to the deaths of two police officers and a Brink’s guard. Gilbert was a member of the Weather Underground, a New Left radical extremist group active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Joining me to discuss Gilbert’s likely release, the history, and the continuing influence of the “Weathermen” is Ken Braun, who wrote the extensive InfluenceWatch profile on the extremist group. The Weather Underground: https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-weather-underground-lucky-terrorists-who-tried-to-live-like-john-brown/ The Weather Underground's Professorial Future: https://capitalresearch.org/article/several-weather-underground-bombers-became-professors/ Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

We’ve covered efforts to ensure that American elections are secure and that it’s easy to vote and hard to cheat, but Congressional Democrats are continuing their efforts to remove security provisions from election law and to give federal bureaucrats control of election administration. And while HR1/S1, legislation to override essentially all state-level election administration regulations, has stalled in the Senate, House Democrats just passed their Plan B: HR 4, the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act,” named for the late Democratic congressman and civil rights movement figure. Joining me to discuss the problems with the legislation and efforts to maintain election integrity provisions is Ken Blackwell, chairman of Council for National Policy Action and the Center for Election Integrity of the America First Policy Institute, who formerly served as Secretary of State of Ohio from 1999 until 2007. • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

In an op-ed at National Review, CRC's Research Director Mike Watson raised serious questions about the agenda and ultimate goal of the ostensibly conservative group American Compass, led by Oren Cass, who is promoting a conservative embrace of unions while taking a great deal of money from lefty funders like the Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network. The piece was in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed penned by Cass back in September in which he argued that a reformed version of unionism is in line with Republican values. Mike expressed his skepticism, and Cass expressed his displeasure on social media (https://twitter.com/oren_cass/status/1427288802226327560). Mike and Sarah discuss what went down. Mike in NRO: Does American Compass Point Left? (https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/does-american-compass-point-left/) Cass at WSJ: America Needs a Conservative Labor Movement (https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-needs-a-conservative-labor-movement-11600379608) Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

We all know the First Amendment must be constantly defended, but many may be unaware of how much that's the case in places that purport to protect free speech and free expression: the university campus. Speech First, a nonprofit dedicated to aggressively standing up for students who fear punitive action if they speak up, has had several quiet wins over the last year as they pursue defending students in court. While the landscape tends to look bleak for free speech, there are groups and goings on behind the scenes that offer a beacon of hope. Speech First is one of those lights. CRC's Communications and External Relations Director is joined by Speech First's Executive Director Cherise Trump. Learn more about Speech First: https://speechfirst.org/our-team/ Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch